When did school overtake the post office as the place a person is most likely to lose it? Over the past couple of years, crazed student gunmen have outnumbered AK-toting postal workers by a ratio of four to one. Is it the decay of standards in the mass entertainment media? The number of students using E-mail? The Internet? Certainly the proliferation of guns is a contributing factor. But it doesn’t explain the increase in the use of deadly weapons by kids in particular. Back when shoot-’em-ups were weekly events at the post office, the reason most commonly touted was that postal workers were stressed. So much mail–you can never deliver it all! Has school gotten more stressful? What’s different there?
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6:30am Wake up
3:05-5:00 Activity
Friday: soccer game
11:30-11:40 Brush teeth, wash up, take a leak
